Business Unit Overview

For 75 years, Bob Evans Farms has delivered delicious, quick-to-table, farm-inspired food that makes mealtime a little bit easier and a lot more delicious. We're proud to be the #1-selling refrigerated dinner sides, including many varieties of feel-good favorites such as mashed potatoes and macaroni & cheese. We're also a leading producer and distributor of sausage and bacon products, potato products, and egg products including liquid eggs. Our brand portfolio includes Bob Evans, Simply Potatoes, Egg Beaters and Owens Sausage. Bob Evans Farms is based in Columbus, Ohio.

In September of 2017, Bob Evans Farms was acquired by Post Holdings, Inc. and is part of the Refrigerated Retail division. Other divisions of Post include Post Consumer Brands (Cereal), Weetabix (Cereal - UK), Michael Foods (Foodservice), and 8th Avenue Food & Provisions (Private Label). Post has aggressive growth plans for BEF, highlighted by the recent deployment of capital to support innovation, marketing and manufacturing.

Responsibilities

This position is accountable for the daily coordination of production. It requires the assessment of daily operational requirements and the development of daily work assignments for each team member. This position plays a key role in achieving the proper staffing levels for the production lines for the facility to achieve safety and production objectives. The incumbent is responsible for providing a safe and productive work environment and monitoring the development of team members providing coaching and counseling to improve their performance.

• Oversees a multi-shift production time frame, spanning multiple crews, including adherence to all safety protocols, supervision of hourly production staff responsible for daily manufacturing activities and communicating job expectations
• Responsible for hourly employee performance activities including coaching, counseling, discipline, timekeeping and policy and procedure management and enforcement.
• Implements improvements unilaterally to support continuous improvement activities
• Monitors and/or develops multi shift and multi crew staffing and resources, reporting procedures and systems, and initiates a fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
• Participates in recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, training and mentoring processes.
• Identifies overall shift to shift production performance gaps in efficiency, looks for and analyzes trends to identify improvement opportunities, suggests improvements and implements corrective actions to fix deficiencies across multiple shifts and crews.
• Ensures a safe work environment through prompt resolution of safety-related issues, monitoring of work practices to ensure safe work behaviors and doing safety related facility tours and audits. Participates in plant safety program as a leader or group participant.
• Ensures product quality by adherence to product/packaging specifications, SQF protocols and OSHA compliance standards.
• Validates and reviews equipment operations across multiple shifts and crews, communicates problems with other functional leaders, and initiates root cause work actions for long term solutions.
• Maintain involvement and influence in the development and implementation of products, process, and material changes.
• Help develop and implement training programs for team members in a systematic manner to cover all contingencies; assist employees in their self-development, e.g., leadership development, outside education, etc. Know and communicate training status of operations team.
• Ensure collaboration of team members across shifts and between team members and ensure the development of a high-performance work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or a combination of college and equivalent work experience in a food manufacturing facility.
  
• Four to five years of progressive experience working with industrial food manufacturing equipment and supervision of multiple employees.